St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 July 1896 — Page 2

Was a brave woman TAKES HER DEAD HUSBAND’S PLACE AT THE GUN. Whtn He Was Shot Margaret Corbie Faced the Foe While Scores of Men Hastened to Get Away—Ranks with She Maid of Saragossa. Ab a Cannoneer In a Battle. ' Margaret Corbin, a New York woman, Whose bravery ranks her with Byron's Jamons heroine, the maid of Saragossa, and also with the maid of Domremy, la comparatively unknown to the world. Historians overlooked one of the grandest women that ever trod the earth, when they failed to tell of the deed of heroism 4one by Margaret Corbin during the battle of Fort Washington. A few lines in an encyclopedia tell something of her, but no place else is there a word about ber. It was in the defense of New York city that Margaret Corbin showed herself as a courageous and brave woman. In the battle of Harlem plains—first and last of Importance to be fought on the Island of Manhattan—hers was the only deed of ■hlning valor that gave the surrender of S'ort Washington the glory of victorious resistance. There werv incompetence, Sack of arms, pusilanimity—indeed, it was there at Fort Washington that treachery like Arnold’s, only more successful, was practiced. Some men died bravely. One •f them Margaret Corbin’s husband. He was serving n cannon against the Hessians in one of the redoubts which stayed the advance of the enemy on the fort, Baron Kuyphausen was directing his well-disciplined troops according to the information taken through the lines by the traitor. Off to the southeast Lord CPercy was pressing with superior confiiflence and numbers upon the earthworks defended by Col. Cadwalader of Philadelphia. Just as hope was departing, and the Americans were falling back, here and there, one gunner was rendered conspicuous by standing his ground. It was Corbin, a Pennsylvania man, and by his ■ide his tidy little wife, cheeks flaming IWlth exertion and excitement, labored to r.peed his loading and firing. Suddenly Corbin dropped and rolled to his wife’s feet, dead. The fragile woman stepped to the gun, swabbed it, rammed home the shot and touched off the charges, (Valiantly determined not to yield what her husband died to retain. There was only hostile faces around, and she was alone and isolated. Presently, wounded by three grapeshot, she fell. She hadn’t saved the oriflame like Jeanne d’Arc, but she bad shown again that there is one Ching that woman can do as well as the best of men—they can die grandly! It was due rather to a stanch constitution than to tender nursing that Margaret Corbin did not come to her death by those linked balls. Three years later, in 1779, the council of Pennsylvania appealed on her behalf to the board of war, and in consequence she received from Congress a pension of one-half the monthly pay •f a soldier in service. Learning, in the year following, that her injuries deprived her of the use of one arm, the Government allowed her “one complete suit of clothes out of the public stores,” or the value thereof in money in addition to the provision previously made. That, and the title of “patriot” in the records, which h a fine title to hold and deserve, is all Che recognition which her service ever got. It was thirty-three years afterward that the maid of Saragossa imitated Margaret Corbin's bravery, and received the renown that should have been bestowed upon the heroine of the battle at Fort Washington. FIREWORKS AMERICAN MADE. Staten Island Is Knockins Ont China Better than Japan Did.

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pieces,” which go off. it is true, according to program, but which I seed a guide and a spokesman most times to tell what they are all about And talk about Chinese labor! Well, these energetic Americans work so systematically for 357 days of the year, barring Sundays, that their employers are able to sell nearly 20,000 gross of fireworks at less than one-half a cent each, and Site TACKING FIREWORKS FOR MARKET, are still able to make a profit of 25 per sent on their output In this Graniteville, bound In with a Sence over which even a baseball crank cannot hope to look, is a succession of frame buildings, before each of which etands a bucket filled with water. The buildings are separated so that if the -eowtents of one of them go up to join the elements of air and fire, the water may be there to help out the insurance companies. As yet the factory does not attempt to snake the small Chinese crackers. There h not enough profit in them. But everything from them up to the eight-ounce cracker that goes off like a G-inch gun are turned out. The pasteboard is made into Httle cylinders and these are then taken to one of the little houses, where boys ' ix the American fuses, which give lots I it warning before they ignite the cracker, that fingers may remain intact. These lads plug up one end with bits of clay and then ponr In the explosive, and then they >re ready for packing. These firecracker# ion't have Chinese characters on them. But on each, 'in plain New York dialect, a warning how to hold them and when to let go. You do anything else at yonr awn risk. The roman candles are made the same way eave tfiat much more care is taken with them. They are packed with hy-

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draulic presses, and the globes of variously colored fire which are sent over your lawn or into your neighbor’s window are little cones that resemble yellow and blue clay, yet which are so sensitive to heat that the mere placing of them in the pasteboard cylinder sometimes fires them prematurely by friction. Most of the j set pieces and the rockets are loaded at 1 the outset as the roman candles are, the i system being practically the same. One of the most interesting divisions of ’ the work of preparing for the eagle's I screech is the torpedo factory. The giant j torpedoes are made by hand, for they are : very sensitive and they require quite a ; lot of fulminate of silver, which must be ! treated with extreme courtesy. Boys cut | the pieces of tissue paper the exact square, j by machine, and' then force the center of ' each square through the boles of a brass i rack. Then a lad drops some of the ful- j minate in the bottom of the little bag j there formed, and another boy fills the little paper up with gravel. Tfien the racks nre handed to girls, who brush paste over the tops of the papers and twist them tight into little points so that the gravel cannot fall out This done they are packed in sawdust, ten in a box, and ! are ready for you to awake your neighbors. Little Tee Whew's Fourth. "How many Angers has try boy?” Asked his mother of Little Teo Whewj "Eight." she cried, ns lie spread them widej i “Os thumbs, dear me, you have only two! Do be careful of them to-day!" As Tom ran off, to himself he said: “What notions mamma gets into her head.” The day began the Fourth, you know-— Bells to ring and whistles to blow. Tom, with Billy and Sam Carew, Showed wlty they called him “Llttlo Teo Whew.” In the very thick of the fizz and nnlM Tom was the busiest one of the boys; But now and then, in the bang and smoke. He'd think of the words his mother spokeThen he’d gravely count his finger tips, To make quite sure there wore eight, not six. “When one’s so busy," said Little Tee Whew, I "It Is almost more than a boy can do To count’’eight Augers—ami thumbs—one— ■ two.” The toy pistol banged, with a fiash and sneeze, “Just one nice little finger, please.” “No,” said Tom; “mamma did say: ‘Don't break, nor burn, nor blow one away F ” Down fell a match and set on firs Tom’s torpedoes, with hot desire For one fat thumb—but Tom was stout In saying: “No, you must go without.” At last, when the rockets blazed at night, He fell from the wall, and half In fright. He counted over his precious store Os fingers eight, and thumbs, onca mors. When he cr'-pt to bed in h'.s nightgown small ' And turned bls face to the nursery wall, He sleepily murmured: “It seems to me Boys don't need more than two or three; j Dear, dear!" And he fell asleep with the sigh: , “I’m not going to count next Fourth o’ ^ply I” But his mother said, as she smoothed his i hair: | “I’m glad my Little Tee Whew’s all therel" —The Nursery. On Condition. Money lender (to lieutenant)—All ; right, I will prolong your bill, but only . on one condition, viz., that during the I next paper chase you scatter broadcast : these little cards with tiie words: “Mon- । ey advanced on easy terms by N. N.—.” ; —Freisinnige Zeitung.

N the little town of Graniteville, on State n Island, more than 800 persons, mostly farmers’ d a u g h t e rs, work from one year to the next, making colored fires and rockets and roman candles and those mysterious things known as “set

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BELLS OF LIBERTY.

Aye, let the glad bell# ring to-day O'er all thia aunklss'd clime, Ring loud and clear and far away, For thia la Freedom's time; And let them tell the tale anew, Ry river, lake and rill.

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How long ago our grandsires time Stood fast at Bunker HUI. Ring out with joy. n, tuneful belk From surging sen t<> sea; Lot every stroke melodious swell The paean of liberty. Ring out where the pine tree’s crest ; Majestic seeks the sky To where the waters of the West i In golden glory lie. Above Atlantic's snowy foam Take up the cherished atral^er* And In their fair palmetto's bosS* Join In the Riad refrain: W No North, no South, no East, no Wwrt. For love hath stopped the fray; Ring out. O. belle, by heaven blest. Beneath our flag to-day. Proclaim our grandeur to the world In chorus reaching far; Tell how all flags but one are furl’d Beneath the I nion starHow, in the burst of Freed .m’s eua Beside the Western sea, We are the land of Washington. Where every soul Is free. O, bells! your tongues with p-lde endow, And let the nations know That, whlieourswords are plowshares now. Wo fear no foreign foe; Join,with the bell whose thrilling sound, Amid the strife forlorn. Proclaimed to patriots gathered 'round That Liberty was born! Ring proudly, bells, beneath the sky, The anthems of the free. In valley low, on mountain high. Ring out for Liberty! Let not a bell In silence rest That bangs 'twlxt wave and wavai Recrown the land we love the bestLand of the fair and brave! WHAT THE DAY MEANS. The Fourth of July Is the Greatest National Holiday in the World.

.HE greatest national holiday in the world is that on which is celebrated the birthday of the United States. Other nations~have their days of jubilee, when some leading event in their history is

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commemorated. Frei ce celebrates the destruction of the Bnstile; Germany, the triumph of Sedan; Italy, the entry of the Italian troops into Rome. The Hebrews to this day commemorate in joy and feasting the deliverance of their race from the bondage of Egypt; but not one of these celebrations can compare in world-wide significance with the Fourth of July. Lhe Bastile was a monument of ancient despotism, the overthrow of which signified that the people had cast off the chains of their tyrants; Sedan was a great military victory, but it was a victory of conquest; and the day which marks the union of the Italian peninsula witnessed not so much | the birth of a new nation as the resurrec- , tion of a z race. How much more memI orable than all these is that great day.

when the delegates of Great Britain'* American colonies assembled in I’hilaJel- । phla, proelaimed»that a new nation had been founded in the New World, having for its basis the inalienable right of mankind to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and, in the name of a few weak communities fringing the Atlantic shore of the Western continent, threw down a challenge of defiance to one of the most powerful empires of the earth! The Declaration of Independence was not the assertion of freedom by a nation of slaves. Americans were always free. The Pilgrims who landed on the bleak New England shore were ircetnen; bound, it is true, to British allegiance, but exercising from the first the rights of selfgovernment, The American colonies never lost the freedom which the Fathers established, and the brief tyranny of Andros only scathed, without destroying, the heritage of übcr’y handed down by the rounder* to their s-ma. The .Declaration of Independence was as much an a»sertion of rights which had lo:^; been enjoyed, and a protest against tyrannical attempts to encroach upon those right*, I a* it was a prochimnri m of that independence which America• s deemed to b* necessary for the protection of their freedu m. rteoollections of July 4, 1770. < A , > I A Fourth of July Ode. i The Glorious Fourth has come. j Beat the loud resounding drum, pound the tom-tom. sound the hewgag, blow the born and Let her come! Shoot the cracker, fire the pistol, punch the eagle, make him scream. Loudly scream! Day of powder and torpedoes. lemonade that knows no lemon, ginger-pop devoid of ginger, ice cream Innocent of cream! The Glorious Fourth has come. Beat and pound and whack the drum, plunk the banjo, shoot the rocket, fira the cracker. Let her come! Scorch your whiskers, shoot your arm off, blow a large hole through your head. Swelling head! Fire the cannon, crash your ribs In, break your leg and save your country. Then be carried off to bed. Antics of a Hayseed. First moth—May I Inquire why you are laugliingso heartily? Second moth—Oh. nothing much; only the antics of that green moth from the country are so amusing He has been trying for the last two hours to scorch himself to death with an incandescent light.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

SHOUT FOB SILVER. INDIANA DEMOCTATS FOR THE WHITE friETAL. Delegates to the Chicago Convention Pledged to Vote for Matthews for President — Shively Nominated for Governor— Cleveland’s Name Hissed, Silver Is Their Slogan. For Governor B. F. Shively For Lieutenant Governor... .John C. Lawler For Appellate Judge.-, - First District Edwin Taylor Second District Frank E. Gavin Third District Theodore Davis Fourth District A. J. Lotz Fifth District G. E. Boss For Secretary of State Samuel Rolston For Auditor of state I. T. Fanning For Treasurer of State. .. Morgan Chandler For Attorney General L G. McNutt For Reporter Supreme Court. Henry Warrutu For Superintendent of Public Instruction w. B. St. Clair Delegatcs-at-large -I>. W. Voorhees. David Turpie, James McCabe, G. V. Menzies. Eleetors-at-large—James Brown, J. 15. Stoll. The Indiana Democratic convention met in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. It was the largest political assemblage in the State in recent years ami comprised 1.717 delegates. At least 75 per cent of these represented the ulrra-free-silvcr wing of the party. Robert C. Bell, of Allen County, was unanimously chosen president of the convention. State Chairman St -rliug Holt called the convention io order, livery county reported a full representation. The names of Major G. V. Menzies of Mount Vernon and Gilbert Shanklin of Evansville were presented for delegatcs-at-large. Menzies is a gold advocate ami Shanklin favors free silver. Shanklin made a speech of withdrawal. The committee <>n credentials reported m favor of the free silver contestants in he majority of cases. A minority report was tiled by the gold advocates. The dcle-gates-at-birge ami electors nominated m the report and confirmed by the convention are as follows: Senator D. W. Voorhees. Senator Dai i<l Turpie. Judge James McCabe and George V. Menzies. Alternates. John E. Lamb. David F. Allen. .1. C. Nelson ami C K. Tharp: electors for the State at large. James Brown and John B. Stohl; contingent electors. D. S. Gooding ami W. C. Durbrow. The committee recommended Robert C. Rell of Allen County for permanent chairman of the convention and it was concurred in with the adoption of the report. Permanent Chairman R. Bel! thanked the convention for calling him to preside, and eulogized ilm Denioer.itie State record ami the illiMr;>us Democrats of the S:ate. im-’miing an elaborate amt pleasant reference to Gov. Matthews in connect ion with the presidency. Contented Seats The next question : > b :t 1 to a wrangle was the report of the committe,- on credctitiais on till' Imima.ip -I’s cotit The report seated the gold men from the Sixtli ward am! divided the Fifth ward equally between the two elements, ami then gave nil the silver contestants in tiie other wards. --on:e forty in' number. .-.eats in the e nvoniion. Tie report iccommeiideii tiie : 'option of a res flution ordering the K->venth dwti'ict convention tn meet at orn e and report its -e’.eetioiK of im-mhers of th'* varions "omnii:‘oes t | the , - i vent ion. Seo.-tor Kern offered a minority report fr. ui the eommirteo 0.. credentials, but the free silver people refiwe I m rcengnize him am! the report was only permittee to I n til-J without bc-i ic read. In tiling it. however, ami gcrldc it admit!' 1 a part of tiie record of (Acon vent ion, the hom -t money men claim that they haw -cenred the basis of their contest before the national committee. Din.eg the recess the .--venth di-triA held their co i vent ion. selecting Will E. Eirglish ami Charles W. C-x per as delegates to the natiomi! convention. English was on both slates, the free silver moil sole •ting him our of ileferenee to the wishes of G .v, Matthews, ami Cm- ge d men having done the same, because he is in sympathy with them in their tight against the 'rhit* m- :al. Immediate y following the recess Cyrus M<Nii!t. of Vigo, present! 1 the phi's irm committee's report to the eonventioa. It was not a st rprise t > the go! I men in its declaration for free silver. a::d its adoption under the operation of the previous question wa J carried with practical unanimity. Ex-Congri ssnian Byntim n.m’.e an . ffort to presenr a minority report, but he was houlcd down, and much confusion followed. Finally he was ;r'rinitted to address the convention for rive minuter. Tiie chairman then or b red the entire::tion to proceed to the ballot f >r Governor. James R. Seller of Montgomery County. B. F. Shively of St. Joseph. John G. Shanklin of Vanderb-tr.g. and George "W. ('oopt-r. the hitter the only gold man in the list, were placed before the c-iiivi-n---1i ci. Seller and Shanklin withdrew and lhe ballot resulted in tl:e nomination of Shively by a vote of 1.G41 to I‘s. for Cooper. By a curioim coim iiienco the billot lacked bar four votes of 1•> tn 1 in favor of Shively. Tiie iiojnim'o imide a short speech, in which he won plau ihs from both elements. The ticket was then completed, as follows: Lieutenant Governor. John C. Lawler. Tippecanoe County; Appellate Judge, first district. Edwin Taylor. Vanderburg: Kceonil district. Frank E. Gavin. Decatur: third district, Theodore Davis. Hamilton; fourth district. A. J. Lotz, Delaware; fifth district, G. E. Ross. Cass: Secretary <7 State. Samuel Ralston. Bonne; Audit, r ri’ Slate. J. T. Fa lining. Marion: Tre ,s---tirer of State. Morgan Chandler. Hancock: Attorney Geaerai. J. <l. MeX :—. Vigo: ropor-er of the Supreme Cour:, Henry Warrum, Marion; supi'riiili-mb nt of public insirm-riim, W. B. S . <’lair. Sta rke. The delegates to Cbb ago met and i tganizeil by electing Semiwr David Tirpic chairman. Myr-m D. King . :ary and James Murdock treasurer. Ten ’aemliers ->f til!- committee pledged t hem-• ]v, s to go to Chicag- and open in olqua! !c; ~ and liogin the eanipaig'ii fir Mauliews from the couvention city. A dish for an invaliii: I/ouml up the meat from the temlerest an I whitest part of a boiled chicken with an eipaal weight of stale bread crumbs. Add ilm broth of tin? cliicken. sur well, put ail into a saucepan, and after boiling for two minutes rub the whole through a sieve. “Mypockets have been picked." cried the bearded woman, "and 1 know who did it. The armless wonder has !>e-m sitting right alongside of me all the morning.’’—Harper's Bazar.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Slayer of Jennie Walters Takes a C hange of Venue—Mary Wallace Gets in Tronble-Sad Fate of Geo. Lncas —Victim of Jokers, Murderer Ends His Life. Milton B. Wells, the murderer of Jennie Walters, committed suicide at Goshen by hanging, using a rope made out of his bedclothes. He left an ante-mortem statement denying that he had any part in the murder, intimating that he was drunk at the time and spilled the kerosene, which caught tire and burned Miss Walters. He claims that he does not know who fired tiie shot-; which struck her. Miss Walters. just before her death, said that M ells was enraged because she had agreed to marry another man; that the evening of the murder he enticed her over to liis hov-e while no one else was there, told her the story of his wrongs and then shot her three times. None of the shots resulting fatally, he dashed a can of kerosem' over her and set fire to it. The neighbors, iittiacied by the lire, rescued her front the building, 'out she expired a few ; hours afterward, regaining e msciousness just long enough to make the above state- ’ ment. There was no doubt in the mind of anyone as to Wells’ guilt. Sha Kidnaped Three Children. Several months ago three children appeare 1 in Indianapolis from Danville. I!!., and performed numerous tricks upon tiie street. The attention of the manager of rhe Nickelodeon theater was attracted to them. The children said their name was Wilson, and that they sent their money homo to their parents, one of whom was sick and in destitute cireamstanc.-'s. Mary Wallace, who was playing at the theater under the name of Mamie Quintette, disappeared wirli the children, and friends whom they had made caused a warrant to he issued for her arrest, on a charge of kidnaping. The woman and the children wore overtaken at Danville, to which point sho had traveled on trustees’ passes, representing herself as the mother of the children and trying to reach her home in the South. Sho was tried before Judge Met'ray. fined sl<N) ami sent to the female 1 reformatory for a term of two years. Killed by Remorse and Fear. George Lucas, of Walton, near Koko- ' mo. is dead of remorse ami fear. His life has been a >ad one and death was no t doubt wi'h omod as a relief. In ISG4 Mr. ‘ Lu as. who was an ardent and uncompromising unionist, killed two soldier boys I 1 that were homo on a furlough, they being Byron and George Knight, sons of ti near neighbor. Some one as a joke told Loens that the Knight Isiys had deserted and were plotiing against rhe Gorern- ! , men . Luea< tried to compel the Knights I ■to return to th- service, and in the tight • i I hat followed lie shot both of them fatally. When matters wore explained Lucas • i went raving mad, and from that hour , i was a mental wreck, and for thirtj’ years . ■ has been a great care to his family. To < the hour of his death ho was tortured by . tear that tiie J. ad men's friends were , . seeking his life. All Over the State. i Arho Butt. St; years old. near Hartford . ' City, was kicked to death by a horse. ; ! Fifty glass workers at Hartford City , Iha e started for Belgium, to spend the । summer vacation. Erickson Kilgore, near 'Windfall, was kii bed by a horse, the hoof striking his skull. His death occurred Monday. Unknown persons stoned the residence of Lee Watson, at Underwood, and Watson fired into the crowd, the shots being returned. No one was injured. Attorney Daisy Dean, of Anderson, was taken to the prison north Friday, under • ;•- nee for thro • years for irregularities in practice. He is quite well known tiiroug'nout oi>tern Indiana and also in ' th West, i At Shelbyvill<\ Louis Richardson, aged Is, was arresteu, charged with attempt to murder. His uncle. Jefferson Richard^on. ha 1 reprimanded him for idleness, and for so doing was struck on the head with a brick. He will die. ! Whit Star proved that the Marion . County jail, erect'd two years ago at a ■ ■ -<t of S'JHUMiO. is not proof against the . arts of the burglar. He sawed his way to liberty, and the jail attaches have no idea as to the lime he left or the direction in which he has gone. Star was under im", tim nt and sentenced for burg- । lary, and would have been removed to the . northern prison Friday. Uis sister paid ; i him a vis'.; the previous morning, and it . ; is believed she gave him the saws with | whicii he separated the iron bars in the grating and secured his liberty. R.-v. An drew I’erry, of Hoojiestown, 1 BL. believes there is much need of saving i grace in this State. Wednesday evening I he went to labor with the unregenerate and bring tidings of great joy to the denizens of Staunton. He stopped with a prominent member of the congregation, and while he slept some one filched his trousers from the room and departed ’with Iris money, watch and valuable papers. Nut long ago a minister in that vicinity left his best clothes on a fence while he baptized a number of converts, and during his absence the clothes were stolen. Sunday night both the Presbyterian and Methodist churches at Rising Sun were -truck by lightning while services were being hold there. The spire and front of the Presbyterian Church were wrecked by t:. - bolt, wlrich then passed through I g o I '.ur- h. prostrating tiie minister who I vas officiating. The lights were all exI t inguisheJ, causing a panic, which was al- ' j hiy.-d. however, before any serious casi naity occurred. At the Methodist Church ! C il Iren's Day was being celebrated, and j i 1/1' girl, who was reciting, was prosirui —i and rmiJ.ered unconscious by the elemric current. Much excitement resulted. Charles J. I’oehma::. of Hammond, has dis nSse i the SlOJhm> suit against Dr. J, C. Panm nborg, wherein he claimetTdama, s for tin- alleged alienation of his wife's affections. Mrs Po-liman was an invalid, h r death occurring Last week. Laporte claims tiie youngest horse thief on record in Benjamin Harrison Thomp- ; son. aged 8. Last week he was captured | at. Kingsbury with the hors.- and carriage | of ex-Senator Weir, and Tuesday the lit- • tic fellow stole the horse and buggy of Harr L. Weaver, a prominent banker. I The youth will be sent to the reform school.